GIRAFFID.E 



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M. GirafFa camelopardalis wardi. 



Giraffa camelopardalis wardi, LydeWter, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, 'vol. i, 

 p. 221, pi. xv, fig. 2, Game Animals of Africa, p. 366, 1908; 

 Beddard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, vol. ii, p. 626 ; Lankester, ibid. 

 1907, p. 122 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 116, 1910. 



Giraffa wardi, Noaclc, Zool. Anz. vol. xxxiii, p. 355, 1908. 



Typical locality Northern Transvaal. 



A large dark chocolate-coloured race, with the anterior 



F JG . 45. HEAD AND NECK OF TOPOSA GIRAFFE (Giraffa camelopardalis 

 cottoni), A, AND OF NORTH TRANSVAAL GIRAFFE (Giraffa camelo- 

 pardalis wardi), B. 



horn reduced to a low irregular protuberance, the occipital 

 horns greatly developed, and the body-spots broken up into 

 irregular stars, recalling those of tippelslcirchi, from which 



